Sunday, September 4, 2011

FULL TEXT:
Cleveland, May 12. – The year of
moratoriums finds Olaf P. Knudsen engaged in agitating one on alimonies.

The
president of the Ohio Alimony association is energetically mapping out a
campaign against gold-diggers who marry and then divorce for a good cut of
their husbands’ salaries.

“Today,”
Knudsen declares wrathfully, “the courts are choked with cases of this type.
Many never come to trial. Why need they? The greedy, self-entered woman who is
suing her husband and her lawyer can usually gain their object – money –
without trial.”

~ War
on Gold Diggers ~

Knudsen
himself is divorced. Not only does his organization intend to make it harder
for the gold-digging type of wives to wrest money from their husbands, but also
to remove the stigma of “criminal” from the names of those who go to jail when
they default in alimony payments. It also aims to improve prison conditions for
such prisoners. He finds no fault with awarding alimony to wives, who are
physically incapacitated or who have children.

But to
those who seek financial redrew either in spite, or to assure an easy living.
Knudsen is derisive.

“We
know that the present day system of granting alimony is all wrong,” he
maintains. “Equality and Justice, rather than special privileges to women, ought
to predominate.”

~
Planned Reforms ~

The
Ohio Alimony association, Knudsen says, will strive to bring about the
following reforms:

•
Elimination of temporary alimony until the court has made a thorough
investigation.

•
Moratorium on alimony while the ex-husband is in jail for non-payment. Early
hearings where temporary alimony is granted.

• No
temporary alimony for childless women under 35 who are able to work.

• No
alimony to childless women who remarry.

•
Better jail conditions for alimony “martyrs.”

•
Revision of the law and of court custom to change the face that a woman can
take revenge on a former husband.